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--> RV8-List message posted by: "Tom Scherder" <tomscherder@hotmail.com>
Camlocks are the answer!! Just leave the hinges in place and use half of the
hinge to attach your camlocks(available in any length at aircraft spruce)
This has worked very well for me and remember you will have your cowl off a
thousand times during your first several flights to check everything. I have
also attached a piece of skin type aluminum strip to the rear edge of the
top cowl to smooth and strengthen the edge. Works real well. The piano
hinges work well on the sides of the lower cowl because you can get to them
easily, but to join the two cowl parts together use the camlocks.
Tom Scherder
RV 8 N38NE Flying
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jacob & Grace" <grizzlybear@klondiker.com>
Subject: RV8-List: Cowl Fasteners
> --> RV8-List message posted by: "Jacob & Grace"
<grizzlybear@klondiker.com>
>
> Well I just came in from a shop session and I am ready to heave my cowls
as far as I can and fly without them........it could work?
>
> I know now why many people do not use the hinges to attach the cowls. The
top cowl has to move up and forward to come off. BUT> The hinge is like
teeth with don't allow the cowls to move forward, therfore no up! Oh by
pushing and forcing it eventually works, but it is an effort. Then, pushing
the wire down the hinge is an exercise .... I won't even finish....recall
the jokes about alcohol and sex..... the mind might want but the damn thing
just bends.
>
> So, who has used Southcos or Camlocs and where did you get them? (Boy do
I dread drilling off those hinges and separating them from the cowlings.)
>
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